5.  The applicant was born in 1978 and lives in Kyiv.
6.  In February 2005 the applicant left Belarus for Ukraine. From that time on she has been residing in Ukraine with her family.
7.  On 10 March 2006 the Deputy Prosecutor General of Belarus issued an arrest warrant in respect of the applicant on suspicion of aggravated trafficking in human beings and organised crime.
8.  On 26 July 2007 the applicant was apprehended in Kyiv under an international arrest warrant with a view to her extradition issued on 21 June 2007 and a Belarus Interpol Bureau letter of 15 July 2007 to the Ukrainian authorities informing them that the applicant was on the territory of Ukraine and requesting them to find and arrest her with a view to extradition. She was thus separated from her newly-born child, who was exactly one month old when the applicant was apprehended.
9.  On 27 July 2007 the Golosiyivskyy District Court of Kyiv (“the District Court”) ordered the applicant's detention for forty days pending an official request for her extradition to Belarus. On 6 August 2007 the Kyiv City Court of Appeal upheld that decision.
10.  On 29 July 2007 the applicant applied for refugee status in Ukraine.
11.  On 27 August 2007 the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine (“the GPO”) received an official request from the Deputy Prosecutor General of Belarus for the applicant's extradition to Belarus with the aim of prosecuting her for aggravated trafficking in human beings and organised crime. The request contained detailed information about criminal acts of which the applicant was suspected by the Belarusian authorities, as well as assurances that the applicant would be prosecuted only for these crimes, that she would be free to leave Belarus after her trial and serving a sentence, and that she would not be deported or expelled to any third country without Ukraine's consent. No decision was taken with regard to the above request.
12.  On 3 September 2007 the District Court ordered the applicant's continued detention without a fixed time-limit and until the GPO had decided on her extradition to Belarus. The Kyiv City Court of Appeal upheld this decision on 13 September 2007.
13.  On 12 September 2007 the President of the Chamber decided to apply Rule 39, indicating to the Government that the applicant should not be extradited to the Republic of Belarus.
14.  By letter of 21 September 2007, the Belarusian General Prosecutor's Office sent to the First Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine assurances that, if extradited to Belarus, the applicant would not be subjected to any kind of treatment prohibited by Article 3 of the Convention, that she would receive a fair trial, and that the death penalty would not be applied in her case.
15.  On 5 March 2008 the State Migration Committee (“the Committee”) granted the applicant refugee status.
16.  On 6 March 2008 the applicant received a refugee certificate.
17.  On 7, 14 and 21 March 2008 the applicant's lawyer lodged applications for her release with the District Court on the ground that the applicant had refugee status and therefore could not be extradited.
18.  By letters of 12 and 31 March 2008, the District Court refused to consider the applications for release on the ground that there was a final and binding court decision ordering the applicant's detention pending extradition and that it was the prosecution service that was competent to decide whether there were grounds or not for the applicant's detention.
19.  On 18 April 2008 the GPO lodged an objection with the Committee against its decision of 5 March 2008. The objection had the effect of suspending the Committee's decision.
20.  On 5 May 2008 the Committee rejected the GPO's objection and confirmed its decision of 5 March 2008.
21.  On 20 May 2008 the GPO made an objection to the decision of the Committee on the applicant's refugee status to the Regional Administrative Court of Kyiv (“the Kyiv Court”) and requested the suspension of the Committee's decision.
22.  On 26 June 2008 the applicant's lawyer lodged an application for the applicant's release with the Kyiv Court under the Code of Administrative Justice. No decision was taken on this application.
23.  On 9 July 2008 the Kyiv Court rejected the request for suspension of the Committee's decision pending the administrative proceedings.
24.  On 21 July 2008 the Kyiv Court rejected the GPO's objection and confirmed the lawfulness of the Committee's decision of 5 March 2008.
25.  On 23 December 2008 the Kyiv Administrative Court of Appeal (the Court of Appeal) overruled the decision of 21 July 2008 and cancelled the Committee's decision of 5 March 2008.
26.  On 28 January 2009 the Highest Administrative Court decided to initiate the examination of the administrative case in cassation and suspended execution of the decision of 23 December 2008.
27.  On 23 February 2009 the General Prosecutor's Office of Belarus informed their Ukrainian counterpart that the maximum eighteen-month time-limit for the applicant's pre-trial detention had expired and therefore her detention was replaced by an obligation not to abscond. On this ground the Belarus authorities asked the GPO to leave the extradition request without consideration and to release the applicant.
28.  On 25 February 2009 the Deputy Prosecutor General ordered the applicant's release on the basis of the above request of the Belarus General Prosecutor's Office. On the same day the applicant was released.
29.  On 1 April 2009 the Highest Administrative Court upheld the decision of the Court of Appeal.